Isaiah 10:14
And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
הערת לימוד
Study Note
The Assyrian king's boast that 'my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people…and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped' represents the climax of his seven-fold self-aggrandisement (vv. 8-14), which Isaiah places in his own mouth to expose the absurdity of the instrument boasting against the craftsman. The bird's-nest metaphor — raiding unresisted nests of nations as though the peoples were helpless eggs — is both vivid in its contempt and theologically precise in its error: it treats human agency as the final cause of historical success. Verse 15 answers immediately: shall the axe boast against him that heweth with it? — one of Scripture's sharpest rebukes of creaturely self-sufficiency. The passage anticipated every theology of imperial hubris — from Babel (Genesis 11) to Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4) to Herod (Acts 12:23) — who claimed divine prerogatives for human achievements.
תרגומים נוספים
and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathereth eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.
And my hand as to a nest Getteth to the wealth of the peoples, And as a gathering of forsaken eggs All the earth I--I have gathered, And there hath not been one moving wing, Or opening mouth, or whispering.'
And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.
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